RAILWAY FIGURES.
(PHISS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, Aiiril t. A gazetted statement of the traffic on ill sections.of tike railways from April Ist, HWO, > to March 6th, 1921, shows, as against tto' same period of 1919-20, that the- toiwl I'noK/ bei of passengers increased from UJMJImF to 14,860,103, or by 2,893,873, while tfio an* bor of season tickets Issued increased f<H|' 356,694 to 480,513. The number of ratflfr carried inoreuesd from 0,169,601 to O.SO7 'SIX, while the timber traffic increasod from 546,860' to 665,480 tons. Minerals roM frffla 2,091,919 to 3,341,021 tons, unci other s>Md» from 2,411,069 to 2,643,859, mating a toUI increase of 600,006 in Itiie number of tons car* riei. The revenue and expenditure for the Hat periods compare us follows: REVENUE.
For the period just cloaca 'th* percentaf# total of expenditure to revenue was 61.10 per cent., and for Sih« corresponding period*o( the previous financial yeai 70.05 per cent
1921. 1620. £ aNorth Island t . 8,792.514 n,038,08ft South Manri ' , 2,541,592 2,138,W4 Grand total a ..£6,334,104 5,141,140 EXPENDITURE. North. Island 2,862,887 3,011,409 South Island 2,274,835 1,036,891 Grand •total \ . £5,130.722 i3,M7,7»
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17114, 8 April 1921, Page 8
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180RAILWAY FIGURES. Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17114, 8 April 1921, Page 8
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